[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

Mikazuki got better but it's still a really bizarre series. Gouraigan. Ehh. I got completely burnt out after about 8 episodes of utter randomness. From what I understand it never really gets better or more coherent.

With Mikazuki, it wasn't necessarily the weirdness that turned me off. It was that the weirdness didn't build to anything or serve any greater purpose. Like you point out with Gouragain, it all felt very random.

"This kid's being bullied, now there's this flying watermelon slice, now there's a sentai team, now there's a robot, now there's a mysterious villain that looks like Witchblade's boyfriend, now there's another robot, now the watermelon slice is a monster, now the kid is in a Buddha cockpit," and on and on and on. It was like a story told by a 5 year old. By the end of its first 75min episode, I didn't know who any of the characters were or what they wanted or why they mattered or why I cared. Also, I don't know. I'm not sure how much of a fan of Amemiya's late-90s chaos magic aesthetic I am.

But I'm willing to believe these are all criticisms that could be levied at Toshiki Inoue, who wrote both Mikazuki and Gouraigan. And since Garo (to my knowledge) has nothing to do with Inoue, I'm willing to believe a lot of these problems may not be an issue.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Lucha, if you like Devil May Cry and Onimusha, you should enjoy Garo's first season. It feels like those two video games combined as a live action series. The seventh episode of the show features one of the greatest battles I have ever seen in Toku history.

You know, I've never been much of a gamer , but even though those references mean very little to me, I appreciate the attempt!

Was that battle in the seventh episode mostly live action, or mostly CGI? I find Amemiya's reach almost always exceeds his grasp when it comes to CGI (of which he is a mega-fan).